Terry Pratchett Quotes

It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

Terry Pratchett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015

Topics

DeathPeopleWorryBadTalkMost

I've never stared out at the ocean while I've made a record before - that enhances things in a strange way.

Jim James

OceanStrangeWayNeverOutThings

Nobody's perfect, but I hold myself accountable. I think about the choices I make because they not only affect me, they affect all of my fans and my family.

Joey Lawrence

FamilyMyselfMeChoicesThinkFans

Oppression thrives on distance - on not actually meeting or seeing the oppressed.

Robert J. Shiller

SeeingMeetingDistanceOppression

I'm not defined by baseball. I'd love for the Hall of Fame to happen, but if it doesn't, my life won't change. I'll still be coaching my boy's games.

Tom Glavine

LifeLoveChangeBaseballMy Life

I have to visualise my jokes, live my jokes, feel the audience because every audience is different. It's like having a different dancing partner every night.

Rita Rudner

LiveNightPartnerFeelDancing

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

BestOutWordSpokenTuneUnkind

No man has ceased to believe in God before having decided that he should not exist; no book would produce atheism, and no book can restore faith.

Joseph de Maistre

GodFaithManBookBelieveRestore

Especially after the Twin Towers, we're so terrified of 'Arabic' people. And talk about stereotypical negative portrayals of people of certain groups, if you look at the portrayal of Arabic people in Hollywood films, it's just appalling. They've always been just the easiest of targets - along with native Africans and what have you.

Jonathan Demme

PeopleNegativeYouLookHollywood

Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.

Brian Chesky

LovePeopleKindBuildSomething

In America everything's about who's number one today.

Bruce Springsteen

TodayAmericaEverythingNumber

Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.

Alice Meynell

TravelMemoryAngelStrongNameOwn

A tax system is important because of what it can pay for, but also for how it works. When we pay taxes, we expect something back from the state; it strengthens the relationship and accountability between us and our governments. It also pays for what private finance shouldn't: our needs for healthcare, education and social security.

Winnie Byanyima

EducationRelationshipFinanceBack

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